Travelocity, for one, allows a buyer outside the U.S. or Canada to have any flight booking sent to a travel agent anywhere -- so long as he is a Sabre reservations system user -- to have the purchased ticket issued.
Android is so far proving relatively popular with tablet manufacturers despite nagging concerns about fragmentation of Android's operating system, user-interface and app store ecosystem.
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There may not be any Mac viruses at the moment, and the way the system handles user accounts and security means that they are unlikely, but we need to take steps to safeguard ourselves against other malicious software.
Even the most ardent supporters of Social Security would surely be dismayed by this complexity, which was developed over the years, presumably by Congressional staffers, looking to do good, but, apparently, with not the slightest concern about making the system minimally user-friendly.
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So we've seen the same thing from the same two big players for a long time, and like when I got here there's a billboard that somebody's reinvented mobile with exactly the same operating system and user experience that everybody else has.
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Okay, okay, we're making good use of sarcastic italics, but we do have a point: we take such things for granted to the point where it might not have occurred to naysayers that just being able to minimize a window could make an operating system more user-friendly.
That's not surprising as it's been among the few where the software giant has controlled "the whole widget" -- choosing the processor, designing the hardware, and developing not only the operating system and user interface, but a host of licensing standards, services and infrastructure supporting Xbox Live.
But it is the way the Sugar operating system lets the user work that's so clever.
On one system, 74 user accounts had privileges enabling them to change program source code without supervisory oversight, the report stated.
Furthermore, the COOLPIX P7700's intuitive ergonomics and control system allows the user to easily access menus and manual controls, ensuring fluid operation.
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The program could be used by anyone who knew the password, and he had picked an especially weak one: "pos, " a common nickname for the cash-register software that was also the system's user name.
The system allows the user to test endless combinations of products without causing a mess, using up samples, or demanding extra help, and the "before and after" feature should do a number on same-store sales.
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But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
The downfall of any content system is giving the user too many choices that are overwhelming.
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And rather than having to be trained by each user the system appears to generalise well.
Would you rather buy a Wieder weight system from someone whose user id is "foxtrot" or from Sears?
Make sure the system you pick is user-friendly and can be readily adapted to changing household schedules in order to avoid false alarms.
As for Janrain, it has a full-blown user management system, which processes huge amounts of information from sources like Facebook (NASDQ:FB), Twitter, LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).
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Early last year Honda demonstrated how their robot Asimo could lift an arm or a leg through signals sent wirelessly from a system operated by a user with an EEG cap.
As an example, the Navy's newest communications satellite, the Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, is intended to provide more-reliable links for special-operations personnel and other military users than current Navy-operated satellites.
Kay wants to take computing forward with his next great invention, an operating system that puts the user in a three-dimensional graphic world with scores of other users, all computing collaboratively and communicating through audio and visual messaging.
The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
Windows Phone 7.8 takes care of a number of bugs, tweaks parts of the operating system, and brings in the user interface elements from Windows Phone 8, notably the live tile system has been given the same flexibility as that of Windows Phone 8.
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Jetbox uses a well tested user interface to integrate a content management system, WYSIWYG editor, mailing list, website statistics, user registration, search engine, and a document manager.
The operating system is based in Modern User Interface, a unified approach to desktop, tablet and mobile.
Each question asked, answered, and promoted, further commits the user to the system.
Knocking out any one user leaves the system running, and makes shutting it down a daunting challenge for any single court injunction or lawsuit.
"Any voting system is dependent on its user following the proper operating procedures and, in this case, Horry County election officials missed a step, " he says.
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